Colombians prepare to celebrate important regional folkloric music and dance in the 44th International Joropo Tournament. Joropo is a musical style with African and European roots that resembles the waltz.…
22-year-old beauty Yuliana Mejia will be representing the Caribbean coast in the Colombia’s national beauty pageant this November. The Atlantico department’s candidate for Miss Colombia, is a business administration student and…
President Juan Manuel Santos rejected the controversial justice reform passed recently due to unconstitutionality and inconsistencies that “do not favor justice and transparency,” he said Thursday. There were several major points…
The Administrative Tribunal of Antioquia ratified the 2011 election of Governor Sergio Fajardo Thursday after a petitioner demanded the election be anulled over the awarding of a lucrative city contract.…
Colombia is safe for air travel, claimed the director of Colombia’s air transportation authority during the Third Pan American Security Summit in Bogota, Radio Caracol reported Thursday.
Medellin’s International Tango Festival brings tango lovers together for the sixth consectuive year in Colombia’s second largest city from June 16-25. The festival’s events, which will be hosted in various…
Colombia’s Congress has approved a modification to the country’s budget, allowing more resources to be allocated to the country’s increasing tourism industry, local media reported Tuesday. The new law, which…
Two former Colombian governors were barred from public office for 17 and 12 years on Tuesday over alleged corruption. The country’s Inspector General’s Office barred former governor Juan Carlos Abadia…
Police said Tuesday they have seized a large number of weapons, in collaboration with the DEA, after heavy clashes between elite forces and alleged members of the drug gang “Los…